Excerpted From The Washington Free Beacon: The Islamic State has begun posting Syrian children outside of car bomb factories as part of an attempt to stave off U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, according to the Pentagon.
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PEEK: "Russia has to be bowled over by the fact that unlike eight years of President Obama, Trump is willing to use force to defend our friends in Syria, the Kurds and the Arabs. The Russians, since the Syrian civil war began, have had their way with conducting air strikes against our friends, and allowing their friends, the Syrians and the Iranians, to attack ours, but [...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Daily Caller: The U.S. led anti-ISIS coalition bombed the terrorist group 25 times July 3, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) said in a statement Tuesday.
The 25 strikes consisted of “85 engagements” against the terrorist [...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Daily Caller: U.S. backed-Syrian fighters have reached the heart of the city of Raqqa, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, a significant step in the campaign to drive ISIS from its principal stronghold in Syria.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Sunday shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic State militants, an action that appeared to mark a new escalation of the conflict.
The U.S. had not shot down a Syrian regime aircraft before Sunday's confrontation, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pent[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Washington Times: With the Islamic State’s strongholds in Mosul and Raqqa under siege, the U.S. and its allies soon will face a different problem: how to track and contain the thousands of foreign fighters who have flocked to the [...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Daily Caller: President Donald Trump called Syrian refugees a “great Trojan horse” during the 2016 campaign, but his administration has resettled them in a quicker pace than President Barack Obama did.[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From Bloomberg: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a chemical-weapons attack in Syria that provoked U.S. missile strikes on the Middle Eastern country may have been orchestrated.
“There’s growing evidence[...] Continue Reading

Agencie France Presse: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a "fabrication" to justify a US military strike, as Moscow digs in to defend its ally despite increasing strains with Washington.
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Excerpted From National Catholic Register: Two prominent Catholic leaders in Syria criticized the U.S. missile strikes against their nation, wondering why they occurred before investigations into the origins of chemical attacks reported April 4.
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Excerpted From InfoWars: The White Helmets, an al-Qaeda affiliated group funded by George Soros and the British government, have reportedly staged another chemical weapon attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun to lay blame on the Syrian gover[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Hill: Syrian warplanes carried out attacks from the central Syrian air base several hours after it was hit by a U.S. missile strike, the Daily Star reported on Friday.
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SYRIAN AMBASSADOR JAAFARI: “The Syrian Arab Republic has stressed that the Syrian Arab army does not have chemical weapons in the first place and that it would never use such weapons in any of its operations against armed terrorist groups. That it condemns the use of such weapons as being unjustified under any conditions. Let me stress that it is well known[...] Continue Reading

RON PAUL: So Assad, they claim, went and released gas to kill a bunch of people, but... I looked at the New York Times to get the explanation and they said 'Worst Chemical Attack In Years In Syria, U.S. Blames Assad' So it is all over and done with? But it is not quite so easy, is it?
What happened four years ago in 2013? This whole thing about crossing the Red Line. [...] Continue Reading

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. officials rejected Russia's assertion on Wednesday that Syrian rebels were to blame for a poison gas attack rather than President Bashar al-Assad, and signaled possible unilateral action over what Donald [...] Continue Reading

MacCALLUM: "Who does the administration believe was responsible for that attack?"
PENCE: "All evidence points to the Assad regime in Syria. (...) No American can look at those images and not be heartsick. It is a reflection of the failure of the last administration to both confront the mindless violence of the Assad regime and also hold Russia and Syr[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Hill: The Trump administration will temporarily suspend the entry of foreign nationals from some Muslim-majority countries through executive order, according to refugee advocacy groups who have obtained what th[...] Continue Reading

Madrid (AFP) - Five people with suspected links to Islamic State jihadists were arrested Friday in separate incidents in Spain and Hungary, with several weapons also being seized, authorities said.
Spain's interior ministry said police detained a Moroccan man with Dutch ide[...] Continue Reading

ANDREA MITCHELL: Five years. So many people dead. Displaced millions. The suffering. Russia, the game-changer, a year and some months ago entering with no warning, 24 hours after meeting personally with President Obama, Putin's[...] Continue Reading